Tag Archives: Minifigs

Everybody loves LEGO minifigures — well, almost everybody. Minifigs are often the stars of the LEGO models we feature here on The Brothers Brick, but we also feature some amazing custom minifigs you’d never expect to see in an official LEGO set.

3vil Don King?

Brickshelf user stuifzand has created a vaguely 3vil-looking minifig creation called “Weird Hair:”

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Ozumo by Nelson Yrizarry

Nelson’s new vignette Ozumo seems the perfect transition from posts over at Pan-Pacific Bricks back here to my original blog. He’s Photoshopped a very nice magazine cover to showcase his yokozuna:

Chiyonofuji (千代の富士) was one of the greatest yokozunas of recent history. (A yokozuna is the top-ranked wrestler, followed by ozeki.) Chiyonofuji was active throughout the 70’s and 80’s, along with the Hawaiian wrestler Konishiki (小錦), who became an ozeki and paved the way for many of the current wrestlers from outside Japan — including Akebono (曙), the first foreign-born yokozuna.

Nelson’s action scenes are also great:

Finally, another shot of the yokozuna without the magazine text, showing how he created the kesho-mawashi, or ceremonial belt:

Incidentally, the building technique Nelson uses for his sumo wrestlers is called BrickFa, a building style recently developed by Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley. Between this technique and the technique developed by Moko, we’re really starting to see some interesting designs that add additional posability to the traditional minifig.

Highland Berserker by Anthony Sava (with Moko’s Legs)

Moko recently posted pictures of a new idea for articulated legs on a minifig:

Classic-Castler Anthony Sava has combined this building technique with a Viking head and torso, Ron Weasley’s hair, and grill pieces in just the right colors to create a highly amusing Highland Berserker:

Well, he’s pretty small, so it would probably be fairly easy to take his life (just pull his head off with your fingers), but I imagine taking his freedom would be a bit more challenging…

Space Vikings

And for my last post of the night, I give you Space Vikings:

I was inspired to try putting various things into their helmet holes by Classic-Castle forum user TwoTonic Knight’s Wild and Crazy Viking. I’m quite proud of the results. Heh heh…

Brandi Carlile

Local girl Brandi Carlile is hands-down my new favorite singer. Don’t let her great looks or the widespread hype dissuade you from giving her a listen. Since this is a LEGO blog, I added her to my Music folder:

Norse and Napoleonic Minifigs

My 7018 Viking Ship vs. the Midgard Serpent arrived from Amazon.com a couple weeks ago, and I also won an eBay lot of fourteen Imperial Guards and Imperial Soldiers minifigs. Last weekend, I set about making several new historical and literary characters. First up, George Washington:

And from left to right, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington:

I also made Erik the Red (not “historically accurate” with the horns, I know) and Beowulf:

Brick-Built Aliens

Twenty years ago or so, my brother and I spent our free time alternating between building giant castles and giant moon bases. To populate our spaceports and star cruisers, I designed several alien/robot heads and stuck them on my space torsos. My parents wouldn’t buy me a digital camera in the ’80s (heh heh), so these are recreations:

(The image is a link to the full gallery.)

Vikings are Useful

Japanese Brickshelf user MOKO is famous for using parts in unusual ways (among other things). MOKO’s latest creations use parts from the new Vikings line:

Can’t wait to pick up my Vikings…

More Literary Minifigs

I just uploaded twenty more literary minifigs. Here’s a sampling:

John Thornton and Buck from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild:

Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:

And links to the rest:

Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

David Bowman from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Piggy, Ralph, and Jack from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

John the Savage, Lenina Crowne , Mustapha Mond, and Bernard Marx from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Scout Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

Dr. Victor Frankenstein (and his monster) from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Dr. Henry Jekyll from Stevenson’s aforementioned novel

1984, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World — anybody see a pattern in my favorite books? Heh heh…

Literary Characters

I’ve been focusing on vignettes for a while, but this weekend I thought I’d try building a bunch of new minifigs.

Here’s the crew of the Pequod from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:

(A note on Captain Ahab: This minifig is an essentially unmodified Hovercraft Pilot from 7045 Hovercraft Hideout. The head even has a scar that spans his face, just as Melville describes. I almost think the designer at LEGO had Captain Ahab in mind when developing this minifig.)

Here’s the title character from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe:

And links to several more:

Philip Marlowe from Raymond Chandler’s series of detective novels

Henry Fleming (“The Youth”) from Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

Santiago (the title character) from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Winston and Julia from George Orwell’s 1984 (my favorite book)

Jim and Huck from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Billy Pilgrim from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

More to come soon.

A Dog, a Turtle, an Old Guy in a Wheelchair, and a Lady at the Beach

Brickshelf user Michael Jasper is a master of using minifig-hands in unusual ways. I’m not quite sure what he updated in his sundries folder, but these jumped out at me today:

I especially like his beach scene (note the bikini top):

Minifigs from 1900

Patrick Bosman has created several fantastic minifigs reminiscent of the turn of the last century. Patrick demonstrates that the accessories are often as important as the minifigs themselves:

Edit (9/9/05): Here are a couple more I think he’s added recently:

The lace on the maid’s skirt is truly a unique use of the flower!

Oh, and sorry about the Japanese last week. I was in a weird mood. Heh heh.